Bulletin No. 2, 2018

Taking CUHK’s Educational Philosophy Northward 03 establish a new university on the mainland. This new university would have to ensure that the quality of the educational experience it offers is on par with that in Hong Kong. In March 2014, the establishment of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was approved by the State Ministry of Education. This issue of the CUHK Bulletin takes you across the border to see how the young CUHK (SZ) has grown from a campus of only 300 students to its present student body of over 4,000, and how it has ranked first in admitting the highest scoring candidates in the Guangdong Province for three consecutive years. Shenzhen Municipal Government. In 2009, CUHK started to build the CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute in the Nanshan District, which was eventually opened in late 2011 as a base for research, development, training, and technology transfer. In March 2009, the University also established the CUHK-BGI Genome Research Centre in collaboration with the Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen. With the idea of transplanting and furthering CUHK’s mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West, the University Council set up a task force in late 2009 to assess the feasibility for the University to The year 2018 is a special year for The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It marked not only the University’s 55th anniversary, but also saw the first batch of over 300 graduates from another institution with the same name—the four-year- old CUHK (SZ) located in Longgang District, Shenzhen. Since the late 1970s, CUHK has been working in partnership with mainland universities and institutes in research and programme collaborations, endeavours which have grown in scale and intensified since the 2000s. In 2006, CUHK established the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the